💯Agreed!

I was thinking it too hehe

lmao 😆

Not suprising , he was among the people that committed the purge at Dharma barracks.

How is it a goof. Even if Richard had perfect 20/20 vision, reading glasses will help magnify his vision during a task like building a ship in a bottle.

@@TimThomason Because he doesn't age. Meaning his body functions won't deteriorate as the years go by. Including his vision.

@@SinisterMud his vision might not have been perfect in his Ricardo days, he just didn't have access to optometry at the time. Or, as I hypothesized, he is wearing reading glasses purely to magnify his already good vision for the delicate task of bottle-ship-building.

Oh for sure, Richard suspects something is wrong.

He's not lying. He knows they travelled through time and saw the incident happen so its natural for him to assume they are all dead from the aftermath of the incident.

@@jxsh03 yes, but before in the 2004 he knew they were all alive because of the plane crash, so how it is possible that he saw jack and the survivors die if in the 2004 he saw them alive? Assuming that Richard watched them all die, wouldn't be strange to him to have seen them in 2004 after the plane crash? accident? So, in 2007 he would have known that they were all alive, at least before they all left with the helicopter.

@@snoopfatdic valid point.

​@@snoopfatdiche knew they were time traveller's they explained it all to them. The 70's was their present and they all died then. Crashing on the island is their past.

He saw them when they were at the swain station. When it blew up Richard never see them again (because they jumped in time) after the Incident so he thought they were dead.

WhatDoYouWant92 Oh Right

No this has nothing to do with the Swan station or any other station for that matter. Richard assumed all the Dharma-people were dead because he was there during the purge when the Others killed the Dharma people with nerve gas. Some of them survived, including Jack & Co, but Richard didn't know that because he didn't see every detail. He ASSUMED that everyone was dead. Jack & Co teleported back to the future at "the incident" and richard wasn't there to see that happen.

But he met Kate and Sayid before they left the island...I guess he forgot

I love Lost but that's exactly what bugs me and they do it all the time. They spread wrong informations just to fuck up with the audience. Richard clearly didn't see them die but they sell it in a way so they can get along with it. It's bad story telling.

The time skip when the bomb went off. To him, they died.

It's because they originally had a different ending scene where Richard saw the bomb explode.

Benjamin m no it’s because they jumped through time so he thought they had died

@@Alhalmeya no its because they changed the ending. originally he saw jughead explode from a distance. its written on the whiteboard in the writers room on one of the season 5 featurettes on the blu ray.

He was around when jughead blew up so he saw them "die"

​@@random-nz7dyJughead didn't blow up, they just time traveled and were never accounted for s he assumed they were all dead. He didnt mean he literally watched them die, he was speaking loosely

It is not terrible writing. When the hydrogen bomb exploded, there was a big flash of light and Jack's group jumped in time to the present. From Richard's point of view, they were all vaporized by the explosion, so it's totally normal for him to think they died. Why would this be "terrible writing"?

Lol they think there would be a corpse left from a hydrogen explosion 😂😂 peak comedy

@@LQDIW It is possible thet he assumed they were all dead, okay it makes sense, but how this assumption can be correlated with the fact that he saw them, or have notice of them, many time during the first season, starting from 2004? How this assumption can be correlated with the fact that "whatever happens happens" and no one can change the past? Because saying that he watched them all die, means that for Richard they effectevely died in '77. Wouldn't be strange to him seeing all the survivor in the first season knowing that (jack, kate and the others) they were dead in 77? Sorry for my bad english

@@snoopfatdic But Richard at some point understood that Jack and John's groups he saw in 1954 and 1977 were time travellers. John has told him clearly in 1954 that he will be born two years later and suggested him to come visit him, which Richard actually does, so he understood John and his group were time travellers. So when Richard saw the Oceanic 815 crashing on the Island, he knew that they will eventually time travel to the past and, from his point view, die during the DHARMA incident in 1977. Time travel is a difficult subject to fully understand.

@@LQDIW Why would he assume they'd "eventually time travel", he could equally assume that they'd already time travelled.